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by jonathanberger 8y ago
There are more important priorities for the SF Supervisors’ time and the law could cause more harm than good (unintended consequences). More important priorities would be the ones mentioned in the article: the conditions of the street. Poss
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by jonathanberger 8y ago
It's common in San Francisco. Chubby Noodle is an example I booked today for a party of 8.
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by jonathanberger 9y ago
If you like this article, I recommend finding his other pieces particularly about airplane crashes. He writes in a gripping manner and normally seems to have done pretty thorough background research, as well as personal experience.
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by jonathanberger 9y ago
If Sam believes the merge has already begun, then his, Musk’s, and other’s predictions about superhuman AI are really just describing a rather boring fact about the world. His examples of the merge in progress are social media determining h
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by jonathanberger 10y ago
The mistake this article makes is thinking that the typical person will interact with many different USB-C ports and cables than his or her own. The reality, is that people will get to know their own ports, buy their own cables and devices,
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by jonathanberger 10y ago
Yes. We all know (and the article starts out saying) most adults need 2000 calories a day. But then we see pictures of what most would consider one meal, and since we have 2 - 3 meals a day, eating any of these actually leaves you with 4000
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by jonathanberger 11y ago
The fact he's investing his time in building tools for others rather than putting all his time into winning on his own, raises doubts about his actual winnings. One explanation might be that he's maxed out how much he can win.
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by jonathanberger 11y ago
> A basic method for thwarting some email trackers involves disabling emails from automatically loading images, including invisible tracking pixels. But that doesn’t defeat all trackers, which are also hiding in other places like fonts a
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by jonathanberger 11y ago
Does anyone know who or what organization is behind A9T9? It seems the author/source is somewhat obscured. It would be important to know before using for more than a hobby project.
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by jonathanberger 12y ago
Not that I'm aware of. I'm guessing it's for fraud reasons. But I'm pretty frustrated by the lack of messaging/explanation around this change. If you're going to change this for the worse, at least communicate
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The Technology Behind Box Notes – Scaling Nodejs(tech.blog.box.com)
1 points by jonathanberger 12y ago|0 comments
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by jonathanberger 12y ago
I believe he's referring to App.net
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by jonathanberger 13y ago
One key component would be SEO juice. The knowledge should be easily findable by others, even if people use different words to describe what they're looking for. An open question would be how to make the site sustainable monetarily. Ab
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by jonathanberger 14y ago
I just tried to visit but got a "can't find the server" error.
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by jonathanberger 14y ago
Ah thanks, whoops. Should have finished the whole thing. :)
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by jonathanberger 14y ago
Did anyone else try to find the citations made in the blog post back in the original NYT article? I did and couldn't trace some of them down. The third bullet point in the blog says "In his article, Broder claims that 'the car fell short of
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by jonathanberger 14y ago
What's the "unlock code"? I search for home help text or some explanation for about 30 seconds but have been left puzzled.
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by jonathanberger 14y ago
Yes, it's cataloged in Martin Fowler's excellent book Refactoring, Improving the Design of Existing Code in Chapter 9. I'd recommend the book strongly.
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by jonathanberger 14y ago
It just doesn't matter how many stats they release. The stat just doesn't "feel" true. I have never read a report from anyone who has signed into Google Plus, who has reported anyone but Google employees or their friends using the service.
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by jonathanberger 14y ago
I'd love to read a post about both the inspiration and making of this project.
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by jonathanberger 14y ago
> "Not surprisingly, every answer he’s offered up so far has been studiously on-message." This part was a bit disappointing. Part of the fun of an AMA is finding out the unexpected. His one-liners about the Bulls or "NOT BAD" were my fa
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by jonathanberger 14y ago
Thanks for pointing this out Dan, I updated the post to include snippets of other popular terms. You're absolutely right.
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Craigslist now asks for exclusive license when posting(baligu.blogspot.com)
217 points by jonathanberger 14y ago|188 comments
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by jonathanberger 15y ago
For yet another timezone tool, here's the time at 10pm UTC-6 in your local time: http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/?t=10pm&tz=GMT-6
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by jonathanberger 15y ago
See also http://www.ididwork.com that was a YC company in 2008 I believe.
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by jonathanberger 15y ago
This was my guess exactly, actually.
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My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000(baligu.blogspot.com)
152 points by jonathanberger 15y ago|17 comments
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3 Benefits of Cross-Technology Engineering(framethink.wordpress.com)
4 points by jonathanberger 15y ago|0 comments
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by jonathanberger 15y ago
I think pg in his essays is saying something stronger, which is that determination is actually more important than intelligence. And although I tend to agree, let me play devil's advocoate for a moment. "We learned quickly that the most i
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by jonathanberger 15y ago
Apologies for the link bait like title, but I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.

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